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Show I GERMAN MARKETS I ARE CUT SHORT w People Not Starving But Con- w fined to Black Bread, Po- 91 tatoes andVegetables. 9 Correspondence of the Associated 9 Press). 911 Stockholm, Sweden, Sept 30. One 911 thing after another has disappeared M Bo gradually from German markets 'all since the war began that the very II existence of certain luxuries and II some things that were once consld- jf ered necessities, has been forgotten, ajl It was the experience of a correspon- 'II dent of the Associated Press corre- II spondent, who had been In Berlin mil since the war began, and for many 911 years beforo, to find, upon his arrival I in Stockholm, the butcher shop and Mil grocery windows filled with food- 9(1 stuffs he had seen scarcely a sugges- 9 tion of In Germany for many months, II and the restaurant bills of fare also j9 I served as pleasant reminders of ante- JHj bellum days when the German restau- 9(1 rants, as much as those of any coun- Wk try. were piepored to supply a great 9? variety of foods. 9 Germany is not starving, and there 9 I Is no fear there that it will, but the M I people are doing without far more 9 I things than Ihey realize, having be- a I come so gradually accustomed to the I loss or curtailment of certain edibles. 9 I Bacon which the correspondent had 9 I not seen in Germany for months is 91 plentiful here, of course; butter, lard, 9 and olive oil, seen In the grocery 9 I shops offered a really irresistible ap-. 91 peal to one who had scarcely known I 9 them for so long. There were dlffer-91 dlffer-91 cut cuts of pork; the correspondent 91 had had a small portion of pork twice 91 ; in three months. He found many I kinds of bread, while the only kinds 9 1 e rcceny knew were rye mixed 9 with potatoes and wheat mixed with 9' rye. There was real coffee, which 9 one cannot obtain iven In the best 9 hotels or millionaires' homes In Ger-9 Ger-9 many. 9 The taste of French-fried potatoes 9 was alruost a new thing, for no Ger- 9 man household has enough fat to per- 9 mit Indulging in this luxury. With 9 ' baskets of bread cn the tables in ho- 9 ! tels and restaurants, and no bread- 9 card required as a condition prece- fl- dent to partaking, it seemed almost ! irregular and even wasteful. An order or-der for macaroni brought a quantity greater than a household of two persons per-sons can obtain In Berlin for a whole week. A single erder of cold meats contained more than the amount allowed al-lowed per capita in Germany for a Wheat Germans Eat. What, then, it may be asked, are the Germans eating? The answer is: bread, potatoes and other vegetables, oue half pound of meat weekly when it can be obtained, and fish, canned, fresh and smoked. The disappearance disappear-ance of the legumes lentils, peas and benus has been especially felt by the poorer people. A few beans and peas are occasionally to bo had, but only a negligible quantity. Lentils, of which tho Germans were very fond, disappeared disap-peared In tlio first weeks of the war. On this food, if it can be obtained, ono cannot starve, but tho poorer people, peo-ple, who cither get nothing but potatoes pota-toes and bread or who do not know how to make tho most of what they do got, complain of the monotony of the fare and that they aro continually continual-ly hungry. A number of women of this class, Bomo weeks ago, made a small demonstration in front of the city hall of one of the municipalities of Greater Berlin, declaring that they wore hungry. "You Bhall not be allowed al-lowed to starve (verhungerln)," said the mayor, "but you will have to be hungry (hungern)." This Is undoubtedly the spirit animating ani-mating all but an Insignificant number num-ber of the Germans. They are satisfied satis-fied that they will not starve, and they aro willing to mako the sacrifice sacri-fice for tho Fatherland implied in the mayor's words. And they are the better able to mako this sacrifice because, be-cause, as has been illustrated, they do not realize just how great it is. |